<nettime-ann> [Newsletter] Screening of 4 films at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto

[Oliver Ressler <oliver@ressler.at>]

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The following films will be presented at the Serralves Museum of 
Contemporary Art in Porto (Portugal) as part of the exhibition âTo the 
Arts, Citizens!â 
(http://www.serralves.pt/actividades/detalhes.php?id=1758), followed by 
Q & A:

27 JAN, 18h30 | AuditÃrio
DISOBBEDIENTI
54â, 2002
Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini

27 JAN, 21h30 | AuditÃrio
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
118â, 2009
Oliver Ressler

28 JAN, 18h30 | AuditÃrio
COMUNA UNDER CONSTRUCTION
94â, 2010
Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini

SOCIALISM FAILED, CAPITALISM IS BANKRUPT. WHAT COMES NEXT?
19â, 2010
Oliver Ressler


For the new film âSocialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes 
Next?â this is the European premiere.


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SOCIALISM FAILED, CAPITALISM IS BANKRUPT. WHAT COMES NEXT?
A film by Oliver Ressler

The film focuses on the political and economic situation in the Republic 
of Armenia, one of the successor states of the Soviet Union.

âSocialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?â was 
recorded in summer 2010 in Yerevanâs largest bazaar, called 
âBangladeshâ. Every day more than 1000 people try to survive as traders 
in the âBangladeshâ bazaar, where an average vendor does not earn more 
than 100 to 250 Euros per month. In the film, the marketâs traders talk 
about their struggles to survive during crises in a post-socialist state 
that closed most Soviet-era factories and dissolved social safety nets. 
The marketâs traders, primarily former factory-workers, describe how 
their living conditions worsened after the end of the Soviet Union; they 
speak about their hopes and expectations for social change. While they 
live in misery, a small but highly influential class of corrupt 
politicians and super-rich oligarchs team up with international 
corporations in order to fill their pockets with profits from 
transferring state property and licenses for mining.

A former mathematics professor Levon Yeremyan, who now survives by 
trading in the âBangladeshâ bazaar, notes, â95 per cent of people work 
and get the minimum wage, which is ridiculously low by European 
standards, and 5 per cent live like Arab sheikhs.â Most people would 
definitely agree with his description of the wide gap between the 
impoverished masses and the oligarchs in Armenia. This deep divide 
contradicts the official flattering data.

http://www.ressler.at/socialism_failed

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